Its so crazy. I remember my philosophy teacher told our class a story one time on this very subject. Basically, he was in bar that was mainly “gothic” you would say. He sat down next to a guy, and asked him why he dressed like he did and his reply was something to the effect of “because I want to be different than everyone else.”

My teacher looked around and replied “Different than everyone else? Looks like you are dressed like everyone else in the bar to me.”

As you put it, originality is all but dead, all aboard the monkey train, lol.